
The Summer Country
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Nicola Barber
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By:
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Lauren Willig
The New York Times best-selling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet - a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.
Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan - merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados - a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned.
When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts.
Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past - a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.
A brilliant multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, The Summer Country will beguile listeners with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds.
This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Lauren Willig about The Summer Country.
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No ending. Dissapointing.
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As evidenced in the historical notes section, the author gives great attention to giving voice and emotion to female slaves.
An excellent work of historical fiction, with passion, heartbreak, scandal, and 21st century perspectives on slavery and womanhood.
Beautiful, well considered historical novel
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A Great Listen
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Another excellent book!
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Excellent Caribbean Historical Fiction
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Wonderful story, fantastic performance
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Stunning, captivating read
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Great story
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Amazing narrator!
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After I figured out that the book is set before and leading up to Bussa's Rebellion (1816 slave revolt in Barbados) and also the descendants a generation later, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters and location are very well defined and the story was engaging and interesting.
I recommend this one as long as you are aware of the bounces in time.
If only I had known...
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